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Inscriptions

Inscribed lower right: M. Desboutin

Exhibition history

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Two Sides of the Medal: French painting from Gérôme to Gauguin, 1954, cat. 91, pp. 35, 50 (ill.).

Publications

Clement-Janin, La Curieuse Vie de Marcellin Desboutin (Paris, 1922), p. 265. Art News 53 (October 1954), ill.

Artist: Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin (French, 1823–1902)
Date: 1875–79
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 55.5 × 38 cm (21 13/16 × 14 15/16 in.); Framed: 69.5 × 52.1 × 8.9 cm (27 3/8 × 20 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: nineteenth century
Place: France
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1935.71

Possibly Durand-Ruel, Paris by 1922 [see Clement-Janin, 1922]. Julius H. Weitzner, New York by 1935; sold to the Art Institute, 1935.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.